There's no official requirements, so I suggest you go online and check out the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 benchmarks, find your resolution and anti-aliasing configuration, then check out the results. Of course, use common sense and downscale the result a bit because of course Battlefield 3 will be superior when it comes to gnawing on hardware, just take an accurate guess since BC2 is the closest thing we can use to predict.

I'm not sure if I can post an outside link, because I found a great benchmark site. For the computer I'm building, the site scored it at about 100 FPS with their test rig. So take that number, or whatever you have, and take into consideration their testing hardware.

If their CPU or RAM is faster, deduct a few frames; if yours is better, add a few. Good benchmarking sites will tell you which section of the game they used to test. So you can expect that your FPS will be more or less that number. Afterwards, take into consideration the FoV in some of the videos, to see how much your GPU will have to render. Once you calculated everything, divide your FPS by a good number, because we don't know exactly how optimized BF3 will be. After that, you should have a good idea if you'll be able to run it at playable frames.

It seems like a lot of work in words, but trust me, it really isn't.

EDIT: @Moto Crysis at a huge resolution, tons of AA, and with photo-realistic natural + lighting mods. Then again, that's in a league of its own.

There's no official requirements, so I suggest you go online and check out the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 benchmarks, find your resolution and anti-aliasing configuration, then check out the results. Of course, use common sense and downscale the result a bit because of course Battlefield 3 will be superior when it comes to gnawing on hardware, just take an accurate guess since BC2 is the closest thing we can use to predict.

I'm not sure if I can post an outside link, because I found a great benchmark site. For the computer I'm building, the site scored it at about 100 FPS with their test rig. So take that number, or whatever you have, and take into consideration their testing hardware.

If their CPU or RAM is faster, deduct a few frames; if yours is better, add a few. Good benchmarking sites will tell you which section of the game they used to test. So you can expect that your FPS will be more or less that number. Afterwards, take into consideration the FoV in some of the videos, to see how much your GPU will have to render. Once you calculated everything, divide your FPS by a good number, because we don't know exactly how optimized BF3 will be. After that, you should have a good idea if you'll be able to run it at playable frames.

It seems like a lot of work in words, but trust me, it really isn't.

EDIT: @Moto Crysis at a huge resolution, tons of AA, and with photo-realistic natural + lighting mods. Then again, that's in a league of its own.

Yes your computer will be fine with running the game, but what is your resolution?

Originally Posted by Moto

You have a fucking super-computer. Good luck finding a way to NOT run a game on high settings.

That is not a super computer. He needs a Intel® Core™ i7-990X Processor Extreme Edition, then he needs G.Skill Ripjaws series RAM and have have 24GB, then for a video card he needs the GeForce GTX 590. That would be a super computer in a rich guy's hands.

Last edited by Commander X; 08-21-2011 at 09:15 AM.

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Yes your computer will be fine with running the game, but what is your resolution?

That is not a super computer. He needs a Intel® Core™ i7-990X Processor Extreme Edition, then he needs G.Skill Ripjaws series RAM and have have 24GB, then for a video card he needs the GeForce GTX 590. That would be a super computer in a rich guy's hands.